BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//mrlib.org//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.30.10// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH UID:73bb1368-53fa-423e-83de-85ee3a46d8a1 X-WR-CALDESC:Join us for a special conversation between award-winning journ alist Shoshana Walter and bestselling and award-winning author Barbara Kin gsolver as they chat about Walter’s book Rehab: An American Scandal. In th is work\, Walter\, a Pulitzer finalist\, exposes the country’s failed resp onse to the opioid crisis\, and the malfeasance\, corruption\, and snake o il which blight the drug rehabilitation industry.\n\nToday\, more people h ave access to treatment than ever before. So why isn’t it working? The ans wer is that in America—where anyone can get addicted—only certain people g et a real chance to recover. Despite record numbers of overdose deaths\, o ur default response is still to punish\, while rehabs across the United St ates fail to incorporate scientifically proven strategies and exploit pati ents. \n\nIn this book\, you’ll find the stories of four people who repres ent the failures of the rehab-industrial complex\, and the ways our treatm ent system often prevents recovery. April is a black mom in Philadelphia\, who witnessed firsthand how the government’s punitive response to the cra ck epidemic impeded her mother’s recovery—and then her own. Chris\, a youn g middle-class white man from Louisiana\, received more opportunities in h is addiction than April\, including the chance to go to treatment instead of prison. Yet the only program the judge permitted was one that forced hi m to perform unpaid back-breaking labor at for-profit companies. Wendy is a mother from a wealthy suburb of Los Angeles\, whose son died in a sober living home. She began investigating for-profit treatment programs—yet law enforcement and regulators routinely ignored her warnings\, allowing reha b patients to die\, again and again. Larry is a surgeon who himself strugg led with addiction\, and would eventually become one of the first Suboxone prescribers in the nation\, drawing the scrutiny of the Drug Enforcement Administration. \n\nBe sure to register now to participate in this urgent conversation and learn insight on how we might fix the system to save live s.\n\nAbout the Author: \n\nShoshana Walter is a reporter for the Marshall Project covering the criminal justice system. Her reporting has been hono red as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Selden Ring\, and she has won the Knight Award for Public Service\, the Edward R. Murrow Award\, and th e Livingston Award for Young Journalists. She started her work on the trea tment system at The Center for Investigative Reporting\, where her work ap peared in The New York Times Magazine\, in newspapers\, and on NPR station s across the country. She is based in Oakland\, California.\n\nAbout the G uest Host: \n\nBarbara Ellen Kingsolver is a Pulitzer Prize-winning Americ an novelist\, essayist\, and poet. Her widely known works include The Pois onwood Bible\, the tale of a missionary family in the Congo\, and Animal\, Vegetable\, Miracle\, a nonfiction account of her family's attempts to ea t locally. In 2023\, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for th e novel Demon Copperhead. Her work often focuses on topics such as social justice\, biodiversity\, and the interaction between humans and their comm unities and environments.\n\nThe views expressed by presenters are their o wn and their appearance in a program does not imply an endorsement of them or any entity they represent. Reference to any specific product or entity does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by Massanutten Regio nal Library. X-WR-RELCALID:dd1fbe10b15083eadbb6ec66dbf7aeec X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RDATE:20261101T020000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RDATE:20270314T020000 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:9ad857d4-ffdc-4daf-973d-7fa2322bdec4 DTSTAMP:20260831T020847Z DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special conversation between award-winning journa list Shoshana Walter and bestselling and award-winning author Barbara King solver as they chat about Walter’s book Rehab: An American Scandal. In thi s work\, Walter\, a Pulitzer finalist\, exposes the country’s failed respo nse to the opioid crisis\, and the malfeasance\, corruption\, and snake oi l which blight the drug rehabilitation industry.\n\nToday\, more people ha ve access to treatment than ever before. So why isn’t it working? The answ er is that in America—where anyone can get addicted—only certain people ge t a real chance to recover. Despite record numbers of overdose deaths\, ou r default response is still to punish\, while rehabs across the United Sta tes fail to incorporate scientifically proven strategies and exploit patie nts. \n\nIn this book\, you’ll find the stories of four people who represe nt the failures of the rehab-industrial complex\, and the ways our treatme nt system often prevents recovery. April is a black mom in Philadelphia\, who witnessed firsthand how the government’s punitive response to the crac k epidemic impeded her mother’s recovery—and then her own. Chris\, a young middle-class white man from Louisiana\, received more opportunities in hi s addiction than April\, including the chance to go to treatment instead o f prison. Yet the only program the judge permitted was one that forced him to perform unpaid back-breaking labor at for-profit companies. Wendy is a mother from a wealthy suburb of Los Angeles\, whose son died in a sober l iving home. She began investigating for-profit treatment programs—yet law enforcement and regulators routinely ignored her warnings\, allowing rehab patients to die\, again and again. Larry is a surgeon who himself struggl ed with addiction\, and would eventually become one of the first Suboxone prescribers in the nation\, drawing the scrutiny of the Drug Enforcement A dministration. \n\nBe sure to register now to participate in this urgent c onversation and learn insight on how we might fix the system to save lives .\n\nAbout the Author: \n\nShoshana Walter is a reporter for the Marshall Project covering the criminal justice system. Her reporting has been honor ed as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Selden Ring\, and she has won the Knight Award for Public Service\, the Edward R. Murrow Award\, and the Livingston Award for Young Journalists. She started her work on the treat ment system at The Center for Investigative Reporting\, where her work app eared in The New York Times Magazine\, in newspapers\, and on NPR stations across the country. She is based in Oakland\, California.\n\nAbout the Gu est Host: \n\nBarbara Ellen Kingsolver is a Pulitzer Prize-winning America n novelist\, essayist\, and poet. Her widely known works include The Poiso nwood Bible\, the tale of a missionary family in the Congo\, and Animal\, Vegetable\, Miracle\, a nonfiction account of her family's attempts to eat locally. In 2023\, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the novel Demon Copperhead. Her work often focuses on topics such as social j ustice\, biodiversity\, and the interaction between humans and their commu nities and environments.\n\nThe views expressed by presenters are their ow n and their appearance in a program does not imply an endorsement of them or any entity they represent. Reference to any specific product or entity does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by Massanutten Region al Library. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260324T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260324T150000 LOCATION:https://libraryc.org/mrlib/117501 SUMMARY:Virtual Author Talk: Shoshana Walter END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR